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T. S. SPIVEY.

COMBINED SAFE AND COPYING PRESS.

(No Model.)

No. 896,670. Patented Ja11.22, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

THOMAS SPIVEY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNORTO THE VIC TOR SAFE AND LOCKCOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED SAFE AND COPYING-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,670, dated January22, 1889.

Application filed May 29, 1888. Serial No. 275,482. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern: I) is a portion of the inner box of thesafe,

Be it known that I, THOMAS S. SPIVEY, a and E the customary concrete orother noncitizen of theUnited States of America, residconducting fillingoccu iiying 'the annular ing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamiltonspace between said box and the outer casing and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new or shell. of the struetu re.

and useful Improvements in a Combined Safe F F are upright standards ofthe copyingand Copying-Press, of which the following is press, whichstandards are preferably integral r" a specification, referencebeing hadtherein to with the yoke G, having a nut, g, traversed the accompanyingdrawings. by a screw, H, that carries the press-platen I. 10 Thisinvention relates to those strong cases J is a customary hand wheel orlever whereor boxes which are generally known as tirewith said screw isoperated.

proof or burglar-proof safes; and the first ff are base-flanges of saidstandards,whieh part of myimprovements consists in making flanges may beriveted to the top plate of the said boxes in such a manner as tocombine all safe, as seen in Fig. l; but I prefer the atr 5 theadvantagesofasafe and copying-press ina taclnnentrepresented in Fig. 2.Here said single structure, therebyreducing the cost of flanges areshown as having open-mouthed manufacturing these two indispensableartipockets or pits K K cast with them, which cles of office furnitureand facilitating their pockets are also connected to the standardstransportation. To accomplish these results, F F, as seen in Figs. 3 andat. Furthermore,

20 the ordinary standards of a copying-press are said flanges arepierced to admit bolts L L,

attached to the top plate of the case or box, traversing stay bars orplates M M, which in order that this upper plate or casting will latterare in close contact with the underside serve the twofold purpose of atop plate for of top plate, (3, and, if preferred, said bars the safeand a base or bed for said copyingmay be provided with sockets or otherre 2 5 press, the concrete or other fire-proof filling tainers, one ofwhich is seen at N. beneath said plate serving to stiffen the lat- O isa water-proof filling, which can be ter, and thus prevent it bein sprungor bent poured into the pockets and allowed to harden, in the act oftaking copies of letters, accounts, so as to conceal and protect thenuts on the or manuscripts, as hereinafter described. upper ends ofbolts L L.

30 My invention further consists in providing From the above descriptionit is apparent So the base-tlanges of these standards with inthat thecasting or other plate C serves both tegral or cast pockets or pits,which openas a top for the safe and as a base or bed plate mouthedreceptacles hold the brush and wafor the copying-press, the filling, E,when ter used for takingletter-press copies, as here used, affording avery solid bearing that pre- 3 5 inafter more fully described. ventssaid plate being sprung or bent, no

In the annexed drawings, Figure l is a matter how much power may beexerted by front elevation of my combined safe and the screw. It is alsoapparent that the concopying-press, a letter-book being seen in thestruction herein described affords a fire or latter. Fig. 2 is anenlarged vertical section burglar proof safe and copying-press at a ma-40 of the press and the upper portion of the safe. terially-less costthan would be required to fur- 0 Figs. 3 and at are enlargedhorizontalsections nish separately these two articles of office of the standards FF, said sections being furniture, and the safe is at all timesconventaken directly above the pockets K K. ient as a place ofdepositfor copies of valuable A representsthe hoop, angle-iron, or mainletters, accounts, the. Again, this construc- 4 5 frame, of any approvedconstruction, of fire tion dispenses with the customary heavy bed- 9 5or burglar proof safe or other similar strong plate for the press, andas a natural result the case or box, and B is the door of the same.weight of the structure is diminished acc0rd- O is the top casting orplate of the structingly, thereby facilitating its transportation. ure,which plate may be secured to the angle Furthermore, as the pockets K Kare cast 50 iron or frame in any suitable manner. with thepress-standards, there is no danger 10o of these receptacles beingoverturned nor misplaced when needed. If an accident should happeneither to the standards or yoke, the cement, O, can be chipped out ofthe pockets and the nuts disengaged from the bolts L L, after which acta new pair of standards can be readily attached to the top plate, 0, theembedding of the bolt-heads within the filling, E, preventing anyturning of said fasteners when the nuts are screwed thereto or unscrewedtherefrom; or this turning of the bolts can be guarded against byinserting their heads within the sockets N.

I claim as my invention Vitnesses:

JAMEs H. LAYMAN, SAML. S. CARPENTER.

